After Announcing Plans To Destroy Microsoft Windows, HP CEO Pulls A Gutsy Move
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Re: After Announcing Plans To Destroy Microsoft Windows, HP CEO Pulls A Gutsy Move
#2Wait, the same HP that tossed aside PalmOS? The same HP that gave us HP-UX? Wait stop, I am laughing too much, the coffee shot out of my nose.
Glad to see you pushing the memristor, but really, have any of the board actually, like, you know, used an HP laptop recently? Mine waa awesome as a backup oven, the overheating at last useful, but otherwise?
Re: After Announcing Plans To Destroy Microsoft Windows, HP CEO Pulls A Gutsy Move
#3I wonder what happened to their prior plans to destroy the iPad.
Re: After Announcing Plans To Destroy Microsoft Windows, HP CEO Pulls A Gutsy Move
#4Couldn't they have come up with a better name for a super-smart computer than "The Machine?"
Re: After Announcing Plans To Destroy Microsoft Windows, HP CEO Pulls A Gutsy Move
#5HP-UX? Hps unix variant. It had some good features and some odd issues. One of my least favorite OSs.
HPUX did have an add-on (Real Time Extensions?) to allow you to disable processor interrupts on select processors providing almost realtime mainframe(superdome) computing (some system calls were verboten in this mode). Of course a crash would mean a reboot. Grouping processes to processor sets (psrsets) was kind of neat.
So they did try and its not like they didn't have experience with OS development before. Starting with Linux is probably a better bet for them.
Re: After Announcing Plans To Destroy Microsoft Windows, HP CEO Pulls A Gutsy Move
#6Sensational! On the edges of my seat!
Re: After Announcing Plans To Destroy Microsoft Windows, HP CEO Pulls A Gutsy Move
#7a brand new operating system for The Machine based on Linux
If HP are making their own Linux distro then their target is Red Hat.
Re: After Announcing Plans To Destroy Microsoft Windows, HP CEO Pulls A Gutsy Move
#8Competition is good, if its not HP it will be someone else but they are at least going in the right direction. We have to break free from Windows and move to something much much better.
Re: After Announcing Plans To Destroy Microsoft Windows, HP CEO Pulls A Gutsy Move
#9Couldn't they have come up with a better name for a super-smart computer than "The Machine?"
Maybe it's an indirect reference to the all encompassing Machine in E.M. Forster's story:
Re: After Announcing Plans To Destroy Microsoft Windows, HP CEO Pulls A Gutsy Move
#10HP-UX? Hps unix variant. It had some good features and some odd issues. One of my least favorite OSs. HPUX did have an add-on (Real Time Extensions?) to allow you to disable processor interrupts on select processors providing almost realtime mainframe(superdome) computing (some system calls were verboten in this mode). Of course a crash would mean a reboot. Grouping processes to processor sets (psrsets) was kind of n…
HPUX is light years ahead of Linux on workload management, seriously. HP have an amazing portfolio of OSs, HPUX, OpenVMS, Domain/OS, NonStop, etc. Linux is the lowest common denominator, in 2014 it's barely where these were in 1994...